| Evidence: | 'Had Aldous Huxley been as richly endowed with imagination as with intellectual penetration, his "Brave New World" might have been a truly creative challenge to our machine age. But, lacking the moral indignation and the humanising solicitude of Swift, he fails in his Savage to create a real sponsor for humanity. And the superficiality of his philosophy is shown in the last scene.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 19 Jan 1936 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Perth specific address: 27 Wilson Street location in dwelling: in bed |
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| Reader: | William Soutar |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 28 Apr 1898 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | poet |
| Religion: | atheist |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Aldous Huxley |
| Title: | Brave New World |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 25650 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | William Soutar | |
| Editor: | Alexander Scott | |
| Title: | Diaries of a dying man | |
| Place of Publication: | Edinburgh | |
| Date of Publication: | 1954 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 95 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | William Soutar, Alexander Scott (ed.), Diaries of a dying man (Edinburgh, 1954), p. 95, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=25650, accessed: 23 April 2024 | |
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